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Biodiversity offsets could be an important tool for conservationists. However Martine Maron and WCS's James Watson believe, "if promises [to protect biodiversity] have been made, then using offsets to keep them is admitting we planned to break them."

A logging company, working with local authorities and WCS, has agreed to begin dismantling abandoned logging roads currently being used by poachers to reach Amur (Siberian) tigers, like this one, in the Russian Far East.

A recent survey showed a dramatic drop in elephant populations, the Mozambique government said today. At the hands of criminal gangs, the total number of animals is estimated to have fallen 48 percent, from just over 20,000 to around 10,300.

While traveling in Borneo, Dr. Cristián Samper, President and CEO of WCS, came across a young mother orangutan and her infant. The species is endangered due to habitat destruction, but thanks to the government's efforts to expand protected areas there is hope for this iconic animal.